Synonyms for odyssey
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : od-uh-see |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈɒd ə si |
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Origin :- c.1600, "Odyssey," from Latin Odyssea, from Greek Odysseia, name of the Homeric epic poem of ancient Greece, relating the ten-year wanderings of Odysseus, king of Ithaca, after the Trojan War. Figurative sense of "long, adventurous journey" is first recorded 1889.
- noun journey
- I called him, and begged he would relate to me the Odyssey of his terrible night.
- Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt
- What an Odyssey of adventures he would149 have to relate when he reached home!
- Extract from : « Left on the Labrador » by Dillon Wallace
- The Odyssey is the story of his home-coming, his recovery of his own.
- Extract from : « Epic and Romance » by W. P. Ker
- The greatest scenes of the Iliad and the Odyssey have little to do with myth.
- Extract from : « Epic and Romance » by W. P. Ker
- The Iliad and Odyssey became text-books for the instruction of Greek youth.
- Extract from : « Folkways » by William Graham Sumner
- Ho' mer—the greatest of the Greek poets and author of the "Iliad" and "Odyssey."
- Extract from : « Odysseus, the Hero of Ithaca » by Homer
- The tales of his escapes from the sheep-farm have grown into a sort of Odyssey of the Pentlands.
- Extract from : « Greyfriars Bobby » by Eleanor Atkinson
- Herein the Odyssey does not contradict the Iliad, but is clearly an advance beyond it.
- Extract from : « Homer's Odyssey » by Denton J. Snider
- Moreover the entire series is but an organic part of the Odyssey.
- Extract from : « Homer's Odyssey » by Denton J. Snider
- In these four Books of the Odyssey the education of the Homeric youth has been given.
- Extract from : « Homer's Odyssey » by Denton J. Snider
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